Tuesday, October 17, 2006
J is for Jot
Noontime Notes
Taking time to jot down some noontime notes again. I had been having good luck with handwriting recognition on my Nokia yesterday, but today I can't get it to recognize the "j" in "jot" so we're back to using the touchscreen keyboard. In any event I've ordered a bluetooth keyboard, a nifty small fold up type that has gotten lots of good reviews. I did a lot of research first to make sure it would be compatible and found a really good online price, assuming it holds up well it should be usable with any PDAs or advanced cell phone I or Nian get in the future. Still Nian may see it has another unneeded hi-tech toy and that we have other more pressing financial concerns in our near future.
I have another trip to China next month to see Nian and Aiai. At a minimum the Nokia and the new keyboard should help me keep better notes to record my visit. At least I won't get stuck on "j" when trying to jot down "having a jolly time just jaunting around Bejing."
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Nighttime Notes
Just got done digging up my DLink router manual and figuring out how to set the WAP encryption and password. This turned out to be a little more obscure than I expected. I was thrown off by the fact the DLink defaults to 128 bit 26 digit Hex key and my Nokia defaults to a 64 bit 5 digit ASCII key. I thought the password had to be something other than the WAP key, but finally realized they were one and the same, just that I had to set the WAP to ASCII in my router to give it a sane readable entry name.
This may come as a bit of an inconvenience for some of my neighbors as I found there are dozens if not hundreds of access logins from users other than myself to the internet through my router. If you buy a router that has wireless access remember to enable the WAP encryption whether you are using the wireless access yet yourself or not. I'm surprised the setup wizard doesn't explain that leaving the default unenabled WAP encryption will let everyone use your router as a hotspot. On the other hand this makes setting up hotspots a snap -- you're probably already doing it.
